May 15, 2017

These weapons, mementos of some titanic struggle in the mists of prehistory, may provide us with a clue to solving one of archeology's greatest mysteries. 

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June 9, 2016

The slot at one end held a spear point, while the opposite end has a hole drilled in it to accommodate a bone foreshaft which was lashed to the mainshaft. The flared tangs at the proximal end were designed to toggle after entering an animal, creating a gaping open wound which would cause the hapless victim to die from exsanguination.

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June 9, 2016

She stares at me from across a chasm of more than seventy thousand years, long dark hair swirling about her head, eyes wide open, alert, piercing, searching. Her skin is dark brown, deeply lined from years of exposure to the tropical sun. Her face short and broad, with a small forehead, heavy brow ridge, and prominent jaw. She looks much like us in some ways, and yet very different in others.

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March 15, 2016

It is a formidable-looking weapon: more than six feet long, as big at its widest circumference as a child's baseball bat, tapered to a sharp point. This artifact is a replica of one of the eight Schöningen spears, relics of fantastic antiquity , dating from some three hundred thousand years ago. 

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October 2, 2015

Stanford has suggested a daring alternative to traditional views, proposing that some Ice Age seafarers could have crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to North America over 20,000 years ago.

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